Gas Hob constant ignition clicking

I have a Hygena Gas Hob, over 4 years old, always worked ok if lit by a match but the ignition button has never worked. Not sure of the model as it was in the kitchen when I bought the house. I put some stuff on top of the cooker earlier and it must have been sat on the ignition button. Now it won't stop clicking and sparking on all 4 burners. I've tried lighting them and the sparking/clicking continues..it only stops when I switch the cooker off at the wall, but then starts as soon as I switch it back on. I don't know anything about gas/electric and can't afford to call someone out...please someone help!!

Gas hob............ ignition wont stop clicking. It dosn't appear to be stuck down,and I have tried WD40. Realise that swithching off at the wall is a tempory solution but I am after a proper one.Gas hob............ ignition wont stop clicking. It dosn't appear to be stuck down,and I have tried WD40. Realise that swithching off at the wall is a tempory solution but I am after a proper one.

AnonymousMay 04, 2009

I have the same problem, only it was my husband who used too much water, yep he cleaned the cooker on a bank holiday as well, how fantastic. Hair dryer is out as we speak....I have the same problem, only it was my husband who used too much water, yep he cleaned the cooker on a bank holiday as well, how fantastic. Hair dryer is out as we speak....

Thanks it seems to have done the trick, good old hairdryer. I was really worried I would need a new cooker. now my hairdryer keeps overheating and cutting out so I need to keep going back to it. I may never clean the cooker again!! Thanks it seems to have done the trick, good old hairdryer. I was really worried I would need a new cooker. now my hairdryer keeps overheating and cutting out so I need to keep going back to it. I may never clean the cooker again!!

Amazing. Had the clicking problem on my Whirlpool hob. Read all these posts, got the hair dryer out and it worked!Amazing. Had the clicking problem on my Whirlpool hob. Read all these posts, got the hair dryer out and it worked!

Thank you so much for the answer to this problem. When it started it caused my gran to freak out. I googled the problem, ended up here and in a matter of minutes the problem was solved.Thank you so much for the answer to this problem. When it started it caused my gran to freak out. I googled the problem, ended up here and in a matter of minutes the problem was solved.

Had the same problem. All five burners were continuously igniting, after my wife had given the stove a clean. Turned off the power, removed the five knobs and corresponding rubber rings, and used a hair dryer on the five holes where the knobs were for about ten minutes in total. Hey presto, when I turned the power back on, the constant igniting had stopped. Thank you all. I love the internet :-)

It is really an excellent website. Internet is fantastic. I had a little bit different problem. I could not ignite all my five burners. After reading your problem and solution. I went back to my kitchen and looked for the switch to turn off for cleaning the five knobs with a hair dryer. I found out that the switch was turn off by mistake, I have placed some pans and pots too near the switch and it was turned off by my movement of my kitchenware pieces. I turned on the switch and the problem was sold. Thank you internet and thank you very much for all your sharing.It is really an excellent website. Internet is fantastic. I had a little bit different problem. I could not ignite all my five burners. After reading your problem and solution. I went back to my kitchen and looked for the switch to turn off for cleaning the five knobs with a hair dryer. I found out that the switch was turn off by mistake, I have placed some pans and pots too near the switch and it was turned off by my movement of my kitchenware pieces. I turned on the switch and the problem was sold. Thank you internet and thank you very much for all your sharing.

Hi
I had similar problem today and got great help from this forum. I immediately realised in the begining that this is a problem with moisture/water content. I live in a rented apartment and could not find the exact location of switch for the power supply to the knob.
When i saw the post, i need to do something to remove this moisture. I could not find something to heat and tried to use vaccum cleaner to remove some moisture. But did not work.
And what a surprise...exactly similar to above story, my wife said..we can use her hair dryer. So i used it and problem solved withing 10 mins.
Thanks for sharing problems. I was in also in dilemma in the begining and scary thoughts of lot of money to repair this problem were just arising in my mind.

Had the same problems as below. All 4 burners were igniting as soon as I turned on the power. My wife had split some milk over the hob so I stripped the hob as below and seen all the dryed up milk. So I gave it a good clean and put a little bit of WD40 on the igniters and pushed them in and out a few times and it was sorted. Thanks to you all for the help and hopefully this will maybe help someone in the future.Had the same problems as below. All 4 burners were igniting as soon as I turned on the power. My wife had split some milk over the hob so I stripped the hob as below and seen all the dryed up milk. So I gave it a good clean and put a little bit of WD40 on the igniters and pushed them in and out a few times and it was sorted. Thanks to you all for the help and hopefully this will maybe help someone in the future.

We had the exact same problem with our 5-burner Thermador clicking continuously (until power unplugged). And this also occured after an over-zealous cleaning. I tried cleaning carefully around the burners, and ignitors carefully, but nothing would help.
Even after 24 hours, plugging in the power would start the clicking again immediately. My wife admitted she had maybe used too much water, so we guessed it was a moisture problem below the cooktop surface. I removed the control knows, and carefully pried up the protective ring below each knob so I could see the controls below. I cleaned off the obvious crud around the controls, and then put a small ceramic fan heater over two of the holes, and turned it on high. Hot air blowing back out the other 3 holes.
After about 20-30 minutes of hot air... success!... everything is good now.
Have to give my wife credit for thinking of the heater... I was ready to pull the whole thing out and take it apart.

A HUGE THANKYOU TO ALL OF THE ABOVE POSTS =
We have a Diplomat gas hob and had the exact same problem. I was doing the dishes today and well lets just say a LOT of water was spilled all over the hob. When the hob was switched on at the wall all the iginitions were going crazy, constantly clicking. I kinda new it was a moisture problem after my rather large spillage and went on line to find a solution. BINGO !!!! I found this site. Got my hairdryer and used it on full heat for about 3-5 minutes on each ring knob. The hairdryer theory really does work................Again thankyou for all your posts and now i can eat ;)
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We have an older Thermador Gas Cooktop type range. It was working fine until the cleaning crew came in, then all the burner igniters were clicking when turning on a single burner. I solved the problem by cleaning off the igniters. I first of course unplugged the power. Then I took a small wire telcom pic tool to scrape the white and brown deposits from the sides of the igniters. You could probably use something else similiar to do the scraping. I noticed a shiny surface underneath. I then went ahead and scraped and brushed clean the mating surface where the spark travels. I then vacuumed up the mess. My burners all worked great after this. Hope this helps!

seriously what did we do when the internet didnt exist?.... just cleaned my cooker today and had same prob...seriously what did we do when the internet didnt exist?.... just cleaned my cooker today and had same prob...

After reading all the above i realised that the problem may not be the igniters and thus cleaning the igniters was possibly a waste of time. Instead i turned my attention to the knobs, ie, the push-down buttons. A hair dryer did not sove the problem. So i followed advice number 4 above and dug deeper. By this time i had taken off all the bits i could including the screws and the top cover. that gave me better access to the knobs. i suspected one was dirty as the rubber washer/cover was loose as it had not been properly installed. i then removed the clip, then a washer/spacer, then the spring and gave the hole a bit of a cleanout. in re-assembling, i noticed there were two washers/spacers, while the other 3 knobs had only one. i reassembled using one washer only. problem solved - no clicking now, everything seems good. the cause was either dirt in the push-down knob assembly or the extra washer/spacer in that asembly. thanks everyone.

Thanks so much for commenting. I did the hair dryer thing and it didn''t work so I took the knobs off and cleaned and checked the washer/seals. Then Uh oh...I noticed that one of the knobs was broken on the inside and obviously miissing an important piece. I've order a replacement. :) Thankfully I didn''t get a specialist in to fix what i thought was a faulty electronic ignition.Thanks so much for commenting. I did the hair dryer thing and it didn''t work so I took the knobs off and cleaned and checked the washer/seals. Then Uh oh...I noticed that one of the knobs was broken on the inside and obviously miissing an important piece. I've order a replacement. :) Thankfully I didn''t get a specialist in to fix what i thought was a faulty electronic ignition.

Confirming the hairdryer solution. Too much spray cleaner got under the knobs. A KitchenAid four burner. Pulled the knobs straight up, pulled up the trim rings and cleaned them, sopped up any visible moisture on the ceramic control body with a paper towel, ran a hairdryer on medium for two or three minutes max. All is well. One extra tip: by turning the burners on one at a time, I discovered that when A was alight, the snapping stopped, but with B C or D alight, the snapping continued. So I figured that control A was the offender and concentrated my dryer on it.

Hi,Exactly the same this happened to me a couple of days ago. I attacked my Premier glass hob with cillit bang, left the stuff on it to soak and about 5 mins later my cookers were igniting and clicking/snapping left right and centre.thankfully I found this site. I removed the nozzles and the rubber pieces using a sharp knife and then gave it all a good clean. I then washed and dried thoroughly all the pieces including the knobs. I then used my hair drier on each knob for about 2/3 mins per knob. The clicking continued but was noticeably getting less frequent. About 2 hours later it stopped altogether. I was freaking out because unlike some of the post I read mine did not stop straightaway but eventually it worked.

I have a Siemens hob. We had the same problem. It turned out to that one of the seals underneath one of the knobs had fallen down and some gunk had got in. We cleaned it off with a toothpick and vacumed up the bits, hey presto all is now quiet again.

Hey! Had same problem after spilling some water over the knobs - all four ignitors were going off whenever the power was on..... Just tried the hairdryer trick and also cleaned the ignitors with a cotton bud and it worked. It took about 5 minutes of hairdryer on the one I suspected had the most water and another minute or so on the others. I also pushed the ignitor up and down a few times and saw water coming out of it. Thank you all so much!!! So relieved I don't have to call a technician.

After reading all the solutions, I too tried the hair dryer on our Siemens hob. We had steamed some food and after 30 minutes started clicking on all the spark ignitions. Turned off the pwer on the electrics and cleaned the ceramic sparks dried it for 5 minutes on all 6 ceramics and voila!!!! it worked!!!
Thanks for all the posts.

I had the same problem with my Belling hob last night. I tried the above solutions, i.e. hair dryer, hoover, but they failed to work. The next morning the igniters were still clicking. I turned the oven itself on, and left it on high for about 10 minutes. The heat from this did dry out the moisture on all the burners and solved the problem. The problem was caused by over-zealous cleaning of the hob, and water getting in the igniters.

Thanks all for the hairdryer advice. Had a separate ignition button on our Creda hob which wouldn't stop clicking after our over-exuberant cleaner had worked on it! Switched off power supply, removed knob and used dryer on it for about 10 minutes. That did the trick!Thanks all for the hairdryer advice. Had a separate ignition button on our Creda hob which wouldn't stop clicking after our over-exuberant cleaner had worked on it! Switched off power supply, removed knob and used dryer on it for about 10 minutes. That did the trick!

Thanks all for the hairdryer advice. Had a separate ignition button on our Creda hob which wouldn't stop clicking after our over-exuberant cleaner had worked on it! Switched off power supply, removed knob and used dryer on it for about 10 minutes. That did the trick!

I have a new smeg hob, and yes I was cleaning when all 4 burners started clicking, I've wiped off all moisture, done the hairdryer thing for over 30 mins....... not worked !! ..... checked all burners ,there clean and dry, checked knobs there the same....... now I've put the oven on as high as it will go....... I've got my fingers crossed!!!!! ...... anyone out there with anymore ideas as I'm running out

I experienced constant igniter clicking with my Prestige Gas Hob. The Hairdryer method did not work. Having removed the 4 control knobs by simply pulling them off I noticed that the small circular plastic rings around the spindles each had a small raised push-button which is meant to move freely up and down. (There must be a small spring underneath). One of these push-buttons was sticky with grime and did not pop back up after being pushed down, hence the constant igniter clicking. I sprayed WD 40 onto the small push-button and used tweezers to move it up and down several times until it sprung back freely and returned to the "up" position of its own accord. The clicking stopped. I pushed the knobs back onto the spindles. Problem solved. A silicon spray would also work but you will certainly need a set of tweezers to free-off the stickyness around the tiny push-button.

Just for those without a hair dryer: the output air of a vacuum cleaner did the job for me (5mins)! In my case it was a IKEA stove (=ignition button) causing the clicking. It helps if you can lift the button a bit while drying so the air-dry is optimized.

Just had the same problem after trying out my new steam cleaner on hob. I was worried it was dangerous so called the cooker mine but no reply so looked on Internet and lo and behold. Put hair dryer on the igniters and then on the actual ignition switch and yay it worked. Thank you very much.

Had a similar problem with a Whirlpool hob. Constant ignition on all burners. Switched the power off, took off the buttons and rubber seals and then simply pushed down on the ignitor 'levers' several times on each on. The one that triggered the problem in the first place felt a bit sticky so probably a bit of grease build up over the years. Didn't need to use a hairdryer, I'll save that for next time.

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if u push the knob there is a clicking sound, if no the problem is damage the ignition coil, need to replace it,or check the outlet,plug or its batery operatet ignition? replace the batery.
the ignition is power operated,check the power source.

1) try leaving it off for a while to see if the ingition box needs to reset
2)when you turn on the burnner does the ignition start by itself or do you have to "ignite" the burnner yourself?
3) if oyu have to ignite the burnner yourself, try using a bbq lighter to see if the gas has gotten to your range yet.
4) if no gas present, there is ussually a reset in the regulator. it needs to be reset if it gets low on pressure. you need to have the lines connected and then turn on the gas AND then the appliance. if the appliance is turned on before the gas in turned on the rest will pop.
lets us know what happens :)